House Committee on Education and the Workforce

House Passes Campus Free Speech Bill

September 20, 2024 11:48 amSeptember 20, 2024 11:49 am

Over the objections of all but four Democrats, the House of Representatives Thursday passed a bill designed to protect the concept of freedom of speech on college campuses. Entitled the “End Woke Higher Education Act,” H.R. 3724 lays out guidelines...

An End to Volunteer Firefighting?

June 24, 2024 1:27 pmJune 24, 2024 1:27 pm

A proposed federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) rule would devastate volunteer emergency service organizations nationwide, say a group of Congress members. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and joined two dozen...

Educators Quizzed by Congress About Growing Antisemitism in Public Schools

May 9, 2024 7:45 amMay 9, 2024 3:43 pm

With buzzwords akimbo, a trio of school district leaders in New York, Maryland, and Berkeley tried to fend off accusations during a congressional hearing May 8 of failing to tackle the issue of growing antisemitism in public schools. New York...

Berkeley Schools’ Antisemitism: Superintendent Testifying to Congress Wednesday Morning

May 7, 2024 3:48 pmMay 7, 2024 3:48 pm

“Kill Jews.” That was scrawled on a Berkeley High School wall recently, prompting the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) to do, well, nothing. It appears the antisemitism problem in BUSD has only grown since February, when the Louis D. Brandeis...

Hating Jews in Elementary School: Berkeley Public Schools Tolerating Antisemitism

May 6, 2024 11:50 amMay 7, 2024 9:29 am

The focus of much of the recent explosion of antisemitism across the nation has seemed to be the college campus. But in Berkeley, it appears to start in elementary school with Palestinian flags in second grade classrooms and kids –...

Congress: What Are You Up to, Julie?

December 7, 2023 3:10 pmDecember 7, 2023 3:10 pm

At the end of October, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an astonishingly overbroad rule as to what constitutes a joint employer. Why does that matter and why would the House Committee on Education and the Workforce send a...